Former Senator North Carolina Jesse Helms died today. Known as an arch-conservative, 86-yr-old Helms served five terms in the Senate. We've rounded up some of our favorite quotes from the man liberals called the "Caveman of the Senate".

William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right's post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House, died Wednesd

There is just one big problem, however: Conservatives do not practice what they preach. They instead live the life of the lie. Long ago, they threw in the towel in the fight for libertarian principles....

As the Iraq war ripens into the largest strategic catastrophe in our nation's history, dead-enders among the Bu'ushist faithful confront a sobering question. No, that question is not how to extricate our nation from the Mesopotamian morass.

"Reviving the Hamilton Agenda." That's the headline the New York Times gave David Brooks's recent column honoring Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father perhaps least interested in limiting political power.

Remember those old photographs taken after World War II, with Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt, plus selected others, posing as masters of the universe? The victors were meeting to carve up Europe, divide the spoils, plan the future, map out a plan f

A decade ago, Canadian Conservatives met in Calgary under the banner 'winds of change,' with an agenda to overthrow big government. Now they're in power. But government keeps getting bigger. What went wrong?

...government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people. We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should.

What Bush has demonstrated to Muslims is that American democracy is unresponsive to citizens and voters. Bush has demonstrated to the world that the US government is controlled by a small oligopoly of vested interests, the public be damned.

President George W. Bush's brand of conservatism is something completely foreign to traditional norms. He has outspent even the most liberal administrations. He has led the nation into undeclared foreign wars under false pretenses.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a political science professor whose support for
Ronald Reagan conservatism catapulted her into the post of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has died at 80. She was the first woman to hold the post.

There are countless other patriotic, God-fearing Americans across this nation who realize that both major parties have become impotent and irrelevant when it comes to representing constitutional principles, I offer the following test. Read it and see

Conservatism in reality died with Barry Goldwater. He latched onto the label as an alternative to the burgeoning spending of the Liberals. But as the Republicans found out, they couldn’t win without a spending program. They simply lied in their campa

I wonder whatever happened to those Republicans and other conservatives who used to pretend that they distrusted government power, which required restraint in order to protect individual liberties. In their view, it is now the individual who is to